“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”

“A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.”

“Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.”

“In the collision between the past and future is a spark known as now.”

“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”

“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”